Hackers get in on the action in London...

http://www.zdnet.com.au/hacking-becomes-latest-weapon-in-uk-riots-339320136.htm?feed=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+zdnetaustralia+%28ZDNet+Australia%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

BlackBerry Messenger has been pinpointed as one of the main media that rioters in London have been using to communicate and, well, organise themselves, so to speak.

Now Research In Motion (RIM) — as if it hasn't had a bad enough year already — is the caught in the middle.

RIM's Inside BlackBerry blog was hacked into after the Canadian mobile phone maker agreed to cooperate and help British police forces. As of 2:30AM AEST this morning, the site was still down, and just looked like a blank page.

For once, it's not Anonymous or LulzSec behind this security breach; rather, it's an unknown group that is now being referred to as "TeaMp0isoN". The Next Web has the group's statement in full, but here's a snippet of the overt threat to RIM

You will_NOT_ assist the UK Police, because if u do, innocent members of the public who were at the wrong place at the wrong time and owned a BlackBerry will get charged for no reason at all, the Police are looking to arrest as many people as possible to save themselves from embarrassment... if you do assist the police by giving them chat logs, GPS locations, customer information & access to people's BlackBerry Messengers, you will regret it, we have access to your database, which includes your employees' information; e.g., Addresses, Names, Phone Numbers, etc. Now if u assist the police, we _WILL_ make this information public and pass it onto rioters ... do you really want a bunch of angry youths on your employees' doorsteps?

BBM has taken on the role of, and even replaced, standard text messaging for many people in the United Kingdom, so it's not that surprising after all in this case. Almost 40% of young people use BBM as primary means of communication..

"TeaMp0isoN" is most known for recently hacking LulzSec...